Consolidated Guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV Infection

The guidelines also take advantage of evidence emonstrating the multiple benefits of antiretroviral herapy. With the right therapy, started at the right time, people with HIV can now expect to live long and healthy lives. They are also able to protect their sexual partners and infants as the risk of transmitting the virus is greatly reduced.
The guidelines represent another leap ahead in a trend of ever-higher goals and evergreater achievements. In Africa, the region that bears the brunt of the HIV epidemic, an estimated 7.5 million people were receiving treatment at the end of 2012, compared with only 50,000 a decade earlier. Worldwide, some 9.7 million people were receiving treatment, indicating that the global target of providing antiretroviral therapy to 15 million people by 2015 is within reach. The present achievement represents the fastest scale-up of a life-saving public health intervention in history.






















